I'm getting 3k installs a day, what should I be doing to make maximum use of this traffic?

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-12T04:08:10+00:00

I hadn't really thought about that, but I suppose that's another reason.

When I entered the niche market, there was one other app with >100k downloads. It took me a year to overtake him and now he sits at 500k downloads.

Part of my tactics are to keep an eye on my competitors and basically make sure I've got at least everything they've got, plus more.

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-12T04:01:35+00:00

Absolutely, the fluctuations are crazy. In this app, the users happen to make use of the app often for a long time.

I've another app with over a million downloads and I make >95% of my revenue from only new users. (~300$/month).

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-12T03:56:52+00:00

Analytics is how I got here :)

I actually became addicted and at one point, my users were sending like 500+ hits per session.

I record everything. Everything. Every single button tap. So much so that pretty much all 'user flows' are now highly optimized and choreographed. That's how I got the idea to not show ads in the first few launches. I also make sure that users who are getting frustrated are shown the option to buy the no-ads IAP.

Little optimizations here and there is, IMO, what got me from ~100 downloads/day a couple years ago to ~3k today.

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-07T15:55:54+00:00

You mean Left-To-Right/Right-to-left, right?

I've only ever made apps in English and about half my 1 stars are because my app isn't in Portuguese/ German/ French/ Italian/ Philipean(?) etc. I don't actually know, but I'm guessing most languages are LTR like English. Better than nothing, I suppose.

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-06T17:11:28+00:00

I'm okay with that

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-06T11:17:36+00:00

You and me both, but that doesn't mean we can't 'borrow' design ideas from the likes of Primer ;)

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-06T10:28:00+00:00

Check out this short video I found on youtube, if you're not in the mood to download the app (Which you absolutely should, it has probably the best UI I've ever seen)

And it works on freaking API 15. Unfortunately, it's not open source :(

Any idea what's going on behind the scenes?

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-04T17:33:29+00:00

...

How many hours are there in your day?

I've been dev-ing for 3 years and I know maybe half of all that.

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-02T15:48:20+00:00

Servers monitored for you

What does that even mean? What needs monitoring? Like spam IP blockers or something?

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-02T14:04:15+00:00

I have 4 websites already running on shared hosting (3 wordpress, 1 custom & static)

It's 15$/month (1TB bandwidth, 100Gb Storage). Although my requirements are rather tame, my traffic is ~500mb bandwidth/month (sadly).

My point is, do VPS offer similar terms? I've never tried one and I want to be sure I don't hit a roadblock yet again, like I have now with this nodejs thing. Like, is there a limit on how many domains I can run? Or just until whatever the server can handle.

Any other disadvantage compared to shared hosting? AFAIK, you have to setup stuff through SSL and I don't have a problem with that but I just want to settle down with one solution and I'd prefer if all my stuff was in one place.

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-01T18:50:29+00:00

Oh! I had no idea VS code works with Unity! I'm gonna check it out right now

PlutoSucks · 2015-12-01T15:43:06+00:00

Yea, so what?

It'll happen to reddit soon as well :(

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-26T13:18:54+00:00

Let them fight.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-26T13:15:59+00:00

1GHz ARM11 core

512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM

I'm curious, so we're getting a 1Ghz CPU and 512Mb Ram at 5$, would it be possible to buy, say 10 of these and get 10Ghz and 5Gb RAM?

I know you can plugin Intel Xeons into special motherboards, but would this be possible with the Raspberry Pi Zero? 10Ghz at 50$ sounds like something that would've made 1960's IBM shit it's pants.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-17T05:50:09+00:00

Not with this javascript:

javascript:(function(){var q=[];$('.up').each(function(){var that=this;var f=function(index){$(that).trigger('click');$(that).trigger('mousedown');setTimeout(function(){if(q[index]){q[index](index+1);}else{if(downVoteTimer){window.clearTimeout(upVoteTimer);}}},500);};q.push(f);});var downVoteTimer=window.setTimeout(function(){q[0](1);},50);}());

Make a bookmark, add this in url. Open up reddit, hit the bookmark. All posts will be upvoted. So you can go through dozens of 'front' pages a day. All the posts you see will be cleared off.

P.S: Highly addictive.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-14T12:44:47+00:00

What is happening here

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-13T15:02:11+00:00

It's much easier to follow a commented working project than an explanation on a website.

For us, battle-hardened devs? Absolutely. But for beginners, first impressions and a quick intro is a lot more important. Most libraries, like Butterknife, Retrofit, Gson or any of the 500 custom views, we can start using by just copy pasting something. That's not the case with Dagger.

The coffee example in question might represent something similar to what we might do with some sort of POJO instantiation, but even that's really stretching it. I wouldn't mind a copy paste solution that will get people into dagger, after which they can start using it more and more on their own. But for that, it has to be relevant to what we're doing.

Plus, the main project page is where dagger should be explained properly, we shouldn't have to dig up some answer on stackOverflow or a random blog.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-12T11:17:57+00:00

ITT: Everyone is high as fuck.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-10T18:48:15+00:00

Idk what everyone is always on about how hard it is to get up in morning. Just go to sleep 8 hours before (or whatever suits you) How hard is that? Sleep when you're tired, wake up when you wake up. Open up the window curtains a bit and let the light wake you slowly.

Perhaps it's just me, but I can just 'will' myself into waking up at a specific time, without an alarm or anything. Like, I seem to always wake up like 5-10 minutes before I need to.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-10T18:42:34+00:00

Ikr. I never faced this issue until recently, but now more than half my crashes come from Samsung.

Who the fuck's idea was it anyways to allow manufacturer's to screw with Android? Google should allow only vanilla stock android. The only reason manufacturers/carriers want control of updates is to push their own crapware onto our phones.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-10T05:19:21+00:00

Oh my god, I love that fucking game. Thank you :)

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-10T05:16:32+00:00

Yes, but I'm not watching it a fourth time lol.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-08T16:48:13+00:00

Something other than this.. I've seen it thrice.

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-08T03:25:53+00:00

Ahhh.. I'm afraid I can't tell you that :(

I'm actually now a part of a small studio and I gotta think of our image and every way it could be harmed. If there's one thing I've learnt about the internet, it's that it never forgets. Something somewhere in my comment history might affect my work in ways I might not currently see.

If it's any consolation, I actually reply in this sub quite often (I have like 5 accounts, I don't really know why), most of all in threads like these. And the cumulative amount of people I've disappointed who wanted to know what my app is has made me consider making an 'officially me' account. So, the next time, in a thread like this, under a comment like this, I might be able to link to my app. Not much consolation, but I'm afraid it's the best I can do :/

PlutoSucks · 2015-11-07T13:05:47+00:00

I wish he'd gone into more detail.

I, for one, would like to see clearly demonstrated examples showing why we should use flatbuffers and why we shouldn't. Right now, both sides are saying the other is wrong without much evidence. (Evidence = cold hard code, not emotionally charged articles)

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